Imitation Closet

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Imitation Closet is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Acacia Lumber ×3, Claro Walnut Lumber ×3, Steel Nails ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 36 units, plus 74 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,383 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,184 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 58 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 56 Wind Crystal, 10 Fire Shard and 8 Ice Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 100 and Blacksmith to Lv 27 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Steel Ingot has the widest use: 125 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.